+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | [On This Day] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Encounters with Aliens on this Day | | | |  January 18 | | | | 1950 - A slow moving disc-shaped or spherical UFO moved through the | | sky over Summit, New Jersey at 7 p.m. It was reddish-orange in color, | | and gave off a steady light. (Source: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los | | Angeles case files, letter dated 1952 from W. Wilkinson). | | | | 1954 - A cigar-shaped object circled the town of Setif, Algeria at a | | high altitude. It left a blue smoke trail as it flew off toward Saint | | Arnaud in the east, where it was also seen. (Sources: Richard Hall, | | UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 17; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A | | History: 1954: January-May, p. 18). | | | | 1956 - A 50-meter wide glowing object dove into the ocean north of | | Maiqueta, Venezuela on this night. A large-scale search of the area | | found nothing. (Source: APRO Bulletin, July 1956). | | | | 1957 - At 10:00 a.m. many people in Campo Quijano, Argentina | | witnessed a metallic ovoid UFO land on the slopes of the mountain | | Cerro Negro. It was viewed through binoculars, and was visible for | | seven hours. (Sources: Oscar A. Uriondo, FSR Case Histories, | | supplement 12, December 1972, p. 9; Larry Hatch, U computer | | database). | | | | 1960 - Two men driving in a car, Haley and Baker, at 10:55 p.m. in | | Lakota, North Dakota had their car's headlights dim as a UFO flew | | nearby. The object flew off towards a field approximately 1.5 | | kilometers from the highway. (Sources: Grand Forks (ND) Herald, | | January 21, 1960; USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official | | statistics; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, p. 17). | | | | 1966 - Near Fetebrogh, New Jersey the lights of a Volkswagen car | | failed as an object with pulsating lights appeared nearby. This | | object then began to make a pass at the car, so the witness drove | | away quickly. (Source: Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle | | Interference, case 162, citing Allen L. Erskine, Why Are They | | Watching Us?) | | | | 1966 - Two surveyors were working near the China Lake Naval Ordnance | | Depot in Kern County, California at 4:55 p.m. when a black, humming | | UFO came straight at them. It passed directly overhead at an | | estimated 150 feet. It trailed a "wake" behind it like a jet dumping | | fuel. They noticed that the object had some kind of field effect on | | their theodolite, moving its setting west by 5 level gradations. | | (Source: J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, March 1982, p. | | 7). | | | | 1967 - At midnight a flash in the sky was noted shortly before a | | power outage in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Fifteen minutes later a | | lighted reddish orange domed disc was sighted on the opposite bank of | | the Green River from four witnesses. When they drove in get help a | | red glowing object buzzed their car. (Source: Raymond E. Fowler, | | Casebook of a UFO Investigator, p.173). | | | | Williamst | | own, Massachusetts Close Encounter with Electrical Interference- 1967 | | | | [Sketch of Williamstown, Massachusetts UFO - 1967] | | | | 1967 - In Shamokin, Pennsylvania a disc-shaped UFO approached at a | | low altitude, emitted two beams of light downward, turned, then rose | | suddenly into the sky and joined a second UFO. Both sped away | | horizontally. (Source: Mount Carmel (PA) Item, January 19, 1967). | | | | 1968 - At 7:30 p.m. in Umbrete, Spain a brilliant, turtle-shaped | | domed disc flew over an olive grove. It was estimated to be 1.2 | | meters in length, and was at an altitude of only 200 meters above the | | trees. It was lost from sight behind some trees. (Source: Jacques | | Vallee, Data-Net Report, March 1971). | | | | 1971 - At ten o'clock in the morning in Campo Quijano, Argentina a | | metallic ovoid-shaped UFO landed on the slopes of Cerro Negro. It was | | seen by many witnesses and viewed through binoculars. A domed UFO | | with a beam of light was sighted in Quincy, Illinois at seven p.m. | | (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 9230; Data-Net | | Report, July 1971). | | | | 1974 - A six-meter long UFO rose vertically in response to light | | signals flashed at it by three witnesses in Landivisiau, France. It | | changed shape to a sphere, then left by rising vertically into the | | sky. (Source: Jean-F. Boedec, Les OVNI en Bretagne: Anatomie d'un | | Phenomene, p. 74). | | | | 1977 - A UFO witness in Bussieres-Saint-Georges, France was thrown | | into some bushes when three glowing balls of light flew overhead at | | one a.m. The witness had 75 minutes of missing time, and the incident | | was followed by many days of persistent headaches. (Source: Lumieres | | dans la Nuit, issue 317). | | | | 1979 - A two-meter wide orange disc-shaped UFO mades two passes over | | two witnesses in Metzeral, France at five p.m.. The UFO made a | | buzzing sound and had lights at both ends. Both witnesses' eyes hurt | | after the close encounter. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, July | | 1979). | | | | 1979 - At 11:30 later that same night in Lusiana, Italy a witness's | | car engine died when an ovoid UFO landed nearby. A door in the craft | | opened and two humanoids emerged. They reportedly had vibrating | | antennae-like ears or antennae on the sides of their heads. (Source: | | Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb and Ted | | Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2274). | | | | 1982 - In the Hessdalen Valley of Norway a luminous metallic ovoid | | flew over telephone lines at 7:30 p.m. in a mining area. Magnetic | | anomalies were recorded. (Source: International UFO Reporter, | | November-December 1983, p. 7). | | | | 1983 - Two hundred people, including school students, a boys soccer | | team, their coaches, and two detectives witnessed two triangles of | | light fly over Cardiff, Wales at dusk. (Source: Philip Imbrogno, | | Contact of the 5th Kind, p. 26). | | | | 1985 - On this evening around 8 p.m. a green glowing disc crossed a | | road in Waldeslust, France at a low altitude. There was a plasma glow | | surrounding the object. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 306). | | | | 1989 - The family of a retired USAF non-commisioned officer was | | awakened by their dog at 3:57 a.m. They saw 6-8 objects over their | | own land and some nearby property for the next hour and | | three-quarters. The objects would vanish at times when jet aircraft | | flew over. The event continued and the lights were still present when | | the family left for work andschool that morning. (Source: MUFON field | | investigation files, case 890603). | | | | 1991 - At 3:30 p.m. 15 people on a bus in Czestochowa, Poland saw a | | spherical UFO ascend between two buildings. One witness saw humanoids | | on the balcony of an apartment building. Later that night in Krakow, | | Poland at 10:45 p.m. another spherical UFO with an appendage was | | sighted over the city. A possible UFO landing site with burnt traces | | was found in Batovice. In Murowana, Poland a 30-meter long cigar | | shaped UFO at 10:50 p.m. shooting out a stream of glowing gas. At | | eleven o'clock in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland a yellowish-red colored | | cigar shot off extremely fast while it offloaded smaller objects that | | fly away in different directions. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, | | issues 309 & 326). | | 1992 - Several witnesses on a bus in Col de Vence, France saw an | | intensely red, Saturn-shaped object skim over the nearby | | mountaintops. The ring around the UFO was sharply defined. (Source: | | Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 312). | | | | 2000 - A shiny spherical object was seen at 6000 feet altitude over | | the Puerto Belgrano Navy Base, Argentina at 12:45 p.m. A powerful | | whirlwind developed at ground level directly below the object. | | Weather station reported that the atmospheric conditions at the time | | were not conducive to the natural formation of such winds. (Source: | | UFO Magazine (USA), May 2000, p. 17). | | | | 2000 - A oval-shaped UFO was sighted in Dayton, Nevada at 6:15 p.m. A | | bright light shone straight out of object, and it was surrounded by | | smoke or a fog-like cloud. A similar phenomenon was reported at the | | same time in Crescent City, California. The witness saw a bright | | light beam that looked like the spotlight from a police helicopter. | | He noticed a blue trail of smoke from the object. (Source: Peter | | Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle). | | | | Written by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. (Revised 28 December 2009). | | | | Compiled from the UFOCAT database. | | | | Themes: cigar-shaped UFOs, domed discs, car buzzin | | gs, cigar-shaped UFOs, fog or mist, humming sound, missing time, mult | | i-year reports from France, ovoid UFOs, Saturn-shaped UFOs, spherical | | UFOs, vehicle EM interference effects, witnesses traveling in a bus. | | | | © Donald A. 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